If you follow me on Twitter, you may have noticed my usual Saturday morning tweet, “Off to do @parkrunUK at _______ #loveparkrun”. I wake up each Saturday morning excited and enthused to go to parkrun.

It made sense that I attend the inaugural Stormont parkrun in east Belfast. The idea of a Stormont parkrun belongs to Mel Boyle working with the estate management to ensure all runners could make use of the grounds each Saturday morning.

For someone who calls themselves a ‘space geek’, I have let the side down by not being aware that it is World Space Week 4-10 October. I stumbled across this accidentally as I found myself without anything to do on Saturday (apart from parkrun). What made this stumble better was discovering former NASA astronaut Greg H. Johnson was kicking off the week in Northern Ireland by giving a talk in the Ulster Museum.

When I heard there was going to be a coffee festival in Belfast I knew it was something I needed to attend. I was so excited about the event, I caught up with one of its creators, Roger beforehand. NI Coffee Festival was held in T13, Belfast on 26-27 September and brought coffee lovers came from all over the country and further afield together.

2015 is the seventh year Culture Night Belfast has taken over the streets of the capital. It is the one night of the year Belfast truly comes to life and the atmosphere is comparable with Times Square, New York or Bangkok at night.

Unfortunately, there were proposed cuts to the NI Events Fund, putting Culture Night Belfast at risk of not materialising at all. Thankfully, due to public support these cuts did not transpire and Culture Night Belfast 2015 was due to be bigger and better than ever. Throughout the afternoon and evening of Friday, 18 September there would be over 250 free events to partake in.